Going for Gold

The one in which Neil qualifies for the Olympics… Dope testing. As a film and television sound professional who has been fortunate to achieve a certain longevity in this most capricious of businesses, it would be difficult for me to single out any one job that has been either the most amazing, the most exciting…

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A Hire Car is the fastest car in the world

The one in which Heather and Neil play Bonnie and Clyde… ‘We’ve not had that spirit here since 1869…’ The Sydney InterContinental Hotel might only have been a couple of blocks away from our quarantine hotel of the previous two weeks, but the five-star service, surroundings and sensation were a world away from the institutional…

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Welcome to Quarantino Bay

The one in which Heather and Neil give peace a chance… Two’s company, three’s a cluster Our Etihad Airways 787 touched down smoothly on the rain-lashed tarmac of Kingsford Smith airport, having flown like an arrow at 250 metres per second through the Arabian night. We arrived with the disorientation familiar to any passenger that…

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